Comments for Ireland

Try a smaller 747 next time.

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nice place though runway is a bit tight

Air Accident Investigation Unit Interim Safety Recommendation:

- That the landowner of Powerscourt Airfield suspends all operations at the airfield pending completion of this Investigation. (IRLD2010003)

Thank you very much - I've updated the position.

Position 53:10.787N 006:12.075W degrees:decimal minutes or

53.178301N -06.196495 (middle of runway) a bit SW of your marked position (green strip in middle of white field)

I'd say a lot of work went into this site! Congratulations

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Up to date Waterford weather ring +353-51-877000

This is the main air base of the Irish Air Corps, which is a small organization for a country this size (about 850 people and 30 aircraft).

I visited Birr Ireland in summer of 2005. I was looking on the Internet for a flying club in Ireland for the possiblity of 'stick time' in the various countries that my wife and I visited. The Birr Aero Club was having a fly-in during our vacation so we researched the Birr area, discovering that Birr was a wonderfull base of operations for exploring central Ireland.

Since we had visited the Oshkosh AirVenture fly-in a few weeks earlier, we thought another, much smaller, fly-in was a wonderful idea. There were two small rows of campers (caravans) that looked a little bit like Oshkosh. The Aero Club was doing 'donation flights' so that I was able to view and photograph Birr from the air.

One of the attractions is the Parsons Estate. The Parsons family have been engineers and scientists for literal centuries. One of them invented the steam turbine about 100 years ago -- the heart of modern power plants and steam ships. Another Parsons built an enourmous telescope that is on display; in fact many of the family have been inovators in optics and photography.